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The children garden in Vranilovci it is full, return children
Playground for there is cricket in Armenian
The Gabrovo district traditionally keeps the sad demographic statistics in Bulgaria for the deadliest villages and neighborhoods. Of the 617 settlements that had no population or one or two inhabitants at the end of 2019, 182 are in the heart of the Central Balkans.
However, the COVID pandemic rehabilitated the area and in 3 months, from March to June, it turned out that the towns of Gabrovo are booming, the properties for sale ended and some of them have doubled their population.
Did the flight of the virus into urban crowds, the claustrophobic closure of apartments in the crisis, make people make rural addresses?
Or live
in a minor
speed of
town, I know
has become a trend
Our team looked for the answers in two of the great towns of the Gabrovo municipality: Vranilovtsi and Armenite. Just ten kilometers from the city on the road to Sevlievo, they have grown to 385 and 243 inhabitants in the current direction, respectively, no more houses for sale, coronavirus and crime as well. There are not enough places in the Vranilovtsi kindergarten, and a cricket ground is being built in Armenia and the national teams of Bulgaria and Malta even played there.
“Where there is a fairy tale, in every bad there is something good. It turned out that the emergency situation due to the coronavirus was the turning point for people to make addresses in the settlements where they live most of the time, otherwise, They would not be allowed to go through the checkpoints to go to the villages. We do not have minorities, we do not have foreign citizens. We have registered persons who own property.
By registering the head of the family, the wife and the two children, that is 4 people, “says Vranilovtsi Deputy Mayor Teodora Tomova. She registered 80 new villagers in the village from March 15 to June 15.
“Let’s say that 60 records are of that type. The rest have properties recently bought for the period to be able to live in and repair them.” Most are from Gabrovo, but there was also a family whose children were from Sofia.
“I grew up here, I’m fine, that’s why we finally checked in during the pandemic. We also have an apartment in Gabrovo, but we’re in town 1-2 months a year. My oldest son is a student in Varna, and the youngest drives to school. in the city, which is 10 km. I am not worried about the virus because
I had more
work when
It was closed,
now less “,
says Rayko Simeonov, who has a car diagnostic center in Vranilovtsi.
After loosening the measurements, most of the others, the rest come for the weekend, but their address record is in Vranilovtsi.
“We can fight to protect their interests, to improve living conditions,” explained the mayor.
The Vranilovtsi school was closed 15 years ago, but there is a kindergarten, which is now full and even the children are being returned. It is central to 7-8 villages and has a capacity for 24 children. Now they are requesting a project to open another group.
“Because we return 2-3 children, and for us that is a lot. 24 children may seem small to you, but it is indicative that people are returning. There have been much worse periods in time. Now the children are increasing, we have 3 born in 2019, we don’t have any for this one.
We will count pandemic babies who will not stay home in early 2021, “Tomova confides.” Everyone realizes that
in the village
live a little
quieter – here
we are like big
family
We help each other more, we know each other personally, we know both the pains and the joys. Well, sometimes we create problems because we know each other very well ”, laughs Teodora. She rules the fifth period of Vranilovtsi. He says that towns are paradisiacal places, but it is important that people and institutions go hand in hand.
Here the young mothers painted the garden fence themselves and then renovated the playground and meeting place in front of the town hall. They are not sick or quarantined. Initially, there were international drivers in quarantine, but so far no one has transmitted the virus.
“It just came to our knowledge then. Now it seemed that people were calming down and beginning to accept it with a little more normality. I hope this does not surprise us in a very unpleasant way,” they hit a tree in Vranilovtsi.
“The pandemic has made people return to the villages to lead a healthier life. With us you can go out into the air in the forest, in the meadows, the environment is cleaner, our living conditions are better than those of the great We have optical internet, excellent communications – 3 times a day there is a bus from Gabrovo to the Armenians and every hour – to Vranilovtsi, “lists the deputy mayor of the Armenians Georgi Petkov.
Since March, he has registered 150 people at his current address, making him a record holder among his colleagues.
“Currently we are waiting for two for permanent residence. They all have properties in the town, mothers and fathers, grandparents, they all have some connection with the town. I have one who built a house and registered his teachers while construction was taking place,” he explains Petkov In the picturesque village under the Strazhata mountain there are no more houses and land for sale.
“This is the town where houses are most sought after, so there aren’t any. And it’s not just because of the pandemic. The Armenians have many advantages: it is off the main road, there is only one entrance and exit to come to steal, you have to go back the same way, there are cameras and someone can always stop you at the exit. That’s
the sunniest
town, here at 8 pm
during the summer
the sun is shining
from now on it is dark, it has its own water source ”, praises the saleswoman from the village shop Velichka Petkova. She and her husband had two apartments in the city, they sold them and they live here. Her son already has a family of his own, but he doesn’t want to live in the city either, he has settled in another town in Gabrovo: Donino.
“It is a trend. And what impresses me, young people with babies seek peace. A girl from the center of Sofia, a computer graduate and even a university professor, got married here and said:” I will live in Armenia! ” she gave birth to two children and she’s fine. She works as a computer specialist at a local photoceramics workshop, “says Velichka.
The mood on the coronavirus also says: “Half of the people definitely don’t believe, but the other half are very scared. I am especially worried because I was exposed to all kinds of viruses for the first time and I am 57 years old, which means that I am not crying, my organs are more or less worn out.
The most interesting thing about the town of Gabrovo is that it already knows the sport of gentlemen: cricket. Ivaylo Katsarski, national and local cricket coach, is building a playground. The field has already hosted a meeting of the national teams of Bulgaria and Malta.
“As the city does not allow me to teach in stadiums, I decided to do my own. We are trying to attract players, since the sport is unknown in our country, but there are many English in the area. My goal is to attract more and at the same time more Bulgarians ”, explains the former assistant of the Sofia Sports Academy.
Mayor Georgi Petkov hopes Ivaylo will pave the way to the playground at the end of town, he promised.
Many things in
Armenians are
built with
Voluntary work
Able young teachers built fountains in front of the church and in the village cemetery. The mayor and the grandmothers of the community center knit sweaters, socks and gloves for disadvantaged people.
“I say one weekday and more than 30 people come out – they clean, cut, collect garbage. Amazing people, “Petkov explains.
The great and beautiful houses of the new inhabitants of Armenia stand out as architecture. The most impressive is the mansion under construction of the famous Gabrovo accordionist Neno Koychev.
“He is invited to play in Covent Garden. His wife is from our town. Now they live in Italy, but as soon as the construction is finished, they come here permanently,” explains the mayor.
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